"Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all."

-- Lois Lowry

#Taken Quotes #Reality Quotes #Choices Quotes

“My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!”

Source : Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.120, Pan Macmillan
“I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.”
“I've always written down how I feel.”
“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”
“I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.”
“He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great landscapes of my childhood because he used to evoke it with his stories. He taught me the sequence of ranks in the British army when I was about eight. I was in the bed with him while he told me everything about his life - except, probably, the real things, because of course you couldn't go there.”
“Donâ€™t ever give up. Donâ€™t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.”
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”

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